1. Steam Engines
Rankine Cycle
Camshaft
Red = Hot Steam
Yellow = Exhaust

3. Thomas Newcomen
First Piston Steam Engine
1709
James Watt
Improved Efficiency of
Steam Engine
1765
Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot
Analyzed the Steam Engine
1824

4. Gasoline (Four-Stroke) Engine
Otto Cycle
Nikolaus Otto

5. Gas Turbine Engine
Brayton or Joule Cycle

6. Carnot Engine Carnot Cycle Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot
No engine operating between two heat reservoirs can be more efficient than a Carnot engine operating between those same reservoirs.